Despite an unusually chilly Arctic, and El Niño’s absence, July 2017 tied for warmest such month on record

That makes last month one of the warmest our planet has experienced since record-keeping began in 1880

Up in the high north, it was unusually cool last month. And unlike last year, there was no El Niño to help amp up temperatures for the globe overall.

Yet July 2017 was in a statistical tie for warmest such month in 137 months of record keeping, according to the monthly climate, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Stu